Opinion: Global Warming’s Godfather Retires

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... I ... back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... James Hansen the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for space studies and a very famous climate alarmist ... resigned this week and vowed to sue federal and state governments ... for not doing enough to combat climate change ... while Street Journal Europe editorial writer Anne Jolis ... joins me now from London to give a send off to Mr Hansen ... and for viewers out there who might not know him ... Louis James Hansen and why was he so concerned about man made global warming ... well to begin with he's he's the head of NASA's guests at the Goddard Institute since nineteen eighty one and he sat in that position he's he you know we started out as as an atmospheric transfer ... and looking at atmospheric transfers ... on other planets ... other days research is really covered ... a very wide breadth of the atmosphere in climate science is ... here on earth ... I am so ... he's been in in that very powerful position for a while ... at the same time he has become it ... for awhile ... and dairy political it in his activism ... he added ... that and you know this already too many without canopy with the Rev last week protesting the Keystone XL pipeline ... and taxpayers are paying in to be ... like to do actual you know the research ... and in studies out there are gracing the front page in your audience ... I ... so is this sort of ... good luck and good riddance ... well yes ... many are times he said We intimated as much he talked about how she felt that there were people Anqi Tillman year canceling of them are people in asset would be happier to have this quote sideshow gone ... and in the past actually a few years ago ... there I e ... under the Bush administration nineteen difference into chafed ... under some of EEI communications and public relations ... statistic on there that ... the you would think would come with the government's science position ... so what ... I'm not that not a suit ... in the series for what ... precipitated this actual resignation but it sounds like him and we get to see that it's maybe been coming for awhile ... now and I want I want to talk about the science ... on many on the left would say gosh Wall Street Journal editorial page why can't you just acknowledge manmade global warming ... but there is some hints on the other side to an EA it comes from ... other prestigious institutions right Princeton MIT ... I sure either Aneel Berkeley and I that that thing is that ... when we talk about I mean it ... I think James Hansen and when the more interesting parts of his career has been that school is one of the scientists to Millan finagle the little details of all the studies in all the science ... and still likes to go all out and ... to campaign on these very broad had lines that might overlook some of the de tails ... I mean the other recent Autonomy don't have anything that proved or disproved ... the global warming man made global warming certainly not ... but ... you're absolutely any and the signs progress is incrementally and and even the knowledge of what we don't know progress is incrementally ... so I think it's more a question of the packaging of this of of the science ... and after James Hansen has been extremely active as well as in the actual science well we wish him well though maybe not with the lawsuits ... Wall Street Journal Europe editorial writer and Chile stinky so